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Hysteria and ignorance PDF Print E-mail
Written by Uponnothing   
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 17:58

MELANIE PHILLIPS: Yes, Big Brother Britain is a menace. The irony is, it's the civil liberties lobby who are to blame.

 

Like all bandwagons, however, this one needs a beady eye cast over it, not least because of its occasional note of hysteria.

 

Its claim that Britain is turning into a police state is clearly over the top (and reveals no small ignorance of what terrors a true police state inflicts)

 

Hysteria and ignorance Melanie? Like, for example, claiming that the BBC's decision to sack Carol Thatcher for her racist remark was:

 

a chilling insight into the totalitarian universe of the closed BBC mind... If the BBC had intended to convince the public that it had departed altogether from reality and common sense and resided instead in some alternative Stalinist universe, it could hardly have done a better job

 

Or, for example, claiming that a 13 year old father:

 

vividly reveals how our children are being abandoned and betrayed... And we all know why this is. A sexual free-for-all legitimated by the mantra of ‘lifestyle choice’, promoted from the top by narcissistic liberals and funded at the bottom by welfare benefits, has caused a catastrophic rate of family breakdown and fragmentation which is now repeating itself in an endless generational cycle

 

Or, for example, claiming that the increased deposits in sharia banking in the UK means that those banks accepting deposits are:

 

effectively endors[ing] the extremist ideology behind it of conquering the west for Islam


Or, for example, claiming that recent teenage pregnancy figures are evidence that:

 

Labour is doing nothing less than trying to reshape the sexual and moral behaviour of an entire society

 

Or, for example, equating a nurse being suspended for praying at work and a 'private remark' (what, it never left the confines of her head?) made by Carol Thatcher being reported with the UK:

 

sliding inexorably into a culture of control which would have been very familiar to the Stasi or the KGB

 

Or, for example, how turning away a slightly batty Dutch MP was a sign that Britain is:

 

sleepwalking towards cultural suicide... If anyone had doubted the extent to which Britain has capitulated to Islamic terror, the banning of Geert Wilders should surely open their eyes

 

 When pointing out hysteria and ignorance Melanie, it would probably be wise to remember that you suffer severe bouts of ignorance and hysteria each time you start foaming at your keyboard. People would also pay more attention to your 'arguments' if they were not so absolutely, staggeringly, mind-numbingly, batshit insane.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:20
 
Comments (7)
7 Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:53
And tell me why she wouldn't support Israel?
6 Sunday, 18 October 2009 10:40
I have always shunned Melanie Philips for what I regard are her unerring bigoted support of Israel. However, having seen some quotes from her on this website, I shall now go back to listening to 'The Moral Maze' even if my blood does boil when she speak about Israel.
5 Friday, 02 October 2009 11:40
You miss the fact that Phillips contradicts herself - saying that concerns over surveillance Britain are exaggerated, and later claiming that we are "sliding inexorably into a culture of control which would have been very familiar to the Stasi or the KGB".
4 Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:47
Of course surveillance in the UK is getting worse. It has done so since the Nues Liarbore Partie under Teflon Tony, and the current Dear Leader, Gordon McRuin-Broone and the 'True and Secret Leader' Lord Meddlesome in the Counties of Foy and Hartlepool.

Tell me Dear Peeps of the Angry Mob website - can you tell me why our Labour government has enacted more laws in the past 11 years than any previous Labour or Conservative government has done so since post WW2?

Why have we got all this anit-civil liberties legislation already on the books, like RIPA, like the 'Civil Contingencies Bill 2004', like all the anti-terrorism legislation? And don't tell me that it "Doesn't exist'!" Because it does.

During 30 or so years of IRA terrorism, there was nothing like the laws that we now have enacted. Is New Labour so distrustful of the Plebs of Britian? Do they truly hate everything about us? Is is Pa Broone who truly wants to micro-manage every aspect of UK civil society?

The worst piece of legislation we ahve is the ruddy 'Yuming Rites Act'. That should be repealled immediately the next Conservative Government gets into office. Off course all the Labour faithful will do their damdest to make sure a Conservative government never gets into office, even if they have to use some of the laws they have enacted.

I dont trut Brown, Mandelson or anyone in the Labour goverment. They might just try to abolish all elections, period, using the 'Civil Contingencies Bill'. So I might be a bit paranoid, but I truly detest what this useless Labour government has done to UK Civil Society!!

Or have all these laws been enacted on the orders of the Kommie Kommizzars of Bruxxelles and Strasbourg. I really must ask my liege Lord Meddlesome about this!!

Stuff and dam them all!!
3 Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:15
In response to the first article quoted - the one about civil liberties - I have posted the comment below just now. Let's see whether it gets put up.


Common law is made by judges. If it's made by Parliament, it's statute law. Melanie Phillips says here that common law has been eroded by judges' gaining more power; that is actually a contraditiction, but she probably didn't realise it because she doesn't understand what "common law" means. I suggest she research more thoroughly before she writes articles in future.
2 Tuesday, 09 June 2009 22:20
Uponnothing
If rational arguments and reasoning are employed by the person reading the extracts from Melanie Phillip's bizarre ranting then they can see just how insane she is. Any person that can state that the BBC's decision to sack Carol Thatcher is a chilling insight into the totalitarian universe of the closed BBC mind... If the BBC had intended to convince the public that it had departed altogether from reality and common sense and resided instead in some alternative Stalinist universe, it could hardly have done a better job is clearly mad, no need to add any further argument, Melanie makes the case well enough herself.

I don't think you have understood the article at all. Melanie Phillips says outrageous things, things that have no bearing on reality, I pointed this out, you seemed to have missed this point.
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1 Tuesday, 09 June 2009 11:26
Is there any real substance or rational arguements, or reasoning, that you can demonstrate against Melanie Phillips? The only thing you have demonstrated is you personal emotional outrage at Melanie, a couple of ad-hom attacks, few insults. But nothing of real substance...

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